About Us

I went to Dharamsala in the North of India on a quest to meet the Dalai Lama. I succeeded! On my journey I had the privilege to meet some other Buddhist monks who, in exchange for me helping them with English, gifted me with Buddhist teachings. I also met Vijay, my first Ashtanga Yoga teacher, and I practised with Vijay every day for 3 months. He currently runs his own successful Yoga school.

On my return to the UK I continued studying Yoga with the British Wheel of Yoga, followed by the Sivananda Yoga tradition in Putney. In 2001 I went to their Ashram in Kerala, India to do my teacher training in Hatha Yoga. During this time I received a blessing from my teachers and was given the spiritual name of Padma. Padma is the lotus flower that represents the path to enlightenment. I continued to work as a volunteer at the Sivananda Ashram in Madrid and then in Neuville-aux-Bois, France.

My ventures later took me to Cusco and Peru. By a beautiful synchronicity I came across a Hari Krishna community that were running Ashtanga Yoga classes and teacher training. I began taking classes and after two weeks I moved in and began my teacher training. This life changing process took around 6 months. At sunrise we would get up, chant mantras, go through the scriptures of the Bhagavad Gita and then practice Ashtanga Yoga. Most days we practised for up to five hours! I qualified in 2007 and have been practising and teaching Ashtanga Yoga ever since.